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Summer time, God awful heat (at least in Texas) and a general lull in the quantity and quality of new titles. Sounds like a perfect combination to go and play something from your Pile of Shame. So, put away your sunscreen, you won't need it here, and let's get to playing some games!

This month's Pick of the Pile is

[size=30][b]Heroes of Might and Magic V

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"The Griffin Empire is getting ready for a celebration — the marriage of the young Emperor Nicolai to his sweetheart Isabel. The festivities are interrupted, however, by the emergence of Demons! Like his father twenty years before, Nicolai leads his army to war. Isabel, however, is banished to the safety of the Summer Palace.

Portrait But Isabel cannot sit still when she could be helping.

The war appears to be going badly, so she convinces her escorts, Beatrice and Godric, to seek help.

Godric leaves to solicit aid from the powerful mages of the Shining Cities. Beatrice volunteers to seek help from the Elven armies of Irollan. Isabel takes to horseback, scouring the countryside to raise a militia.

But other powers are also at work--older and darker ones that have been plotting for ages…" (mightandmagic.com)

ClockworkHouse: He means the comic The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman and Superman get in a fistfight over Gotham. Not The Dark Knight Rises, where Batman and a loudly farting orchestra get in a fistfight over your attention.

Man, I can't wait until my 'foster children' (i.e. gameslaves) arrive from overseas. I'm going to put them straight to work finishing Eternal Sonata for me. After that, they can chase down all the pigeons in GTA IV. I have a whole laundry list of exciting tasks planned!

As a side note, Fable II doesn't take too long to finish. It's doable without much grinding at all, in fact. Although I do admire the attempt to lasso the kids into being your bandit-killing min-maxers.

I thought you could pay someone to level up a character for you in World Of Warcraft so I presume those are children in Mumbai. I suppose it's a bit better than making shoes for nike.

You can knock Gears 2 off the list I finished it last night and loved it. Must try the online stuff but I expect after this amount of time I'll get my ass impolitely handed to me.

Hello everyone. I'm The_Vinnlander, and I have a pile of shame problem.

Though maybe a public commitment is just what I need to finally give Too Human a whirl. I'd bought that back when it was new, and so far I've given it less than 20 minutes. (And the temptation to forget it and just buy Trine instead is staggering.)

I am actually, for real, played FFTA2 lately. Still hooked to WoW, but playing some FFTA2 on the side.

Oh man... I should start playing that again. I put a good 100+ hours in to FFTA, but after maybe 5 or 6 of FFTA2 I put it down and haven't picked it up again. It doesn't help that my wife pinched my DS because she spilled a drink on hers -- it still works, but it's awfully sticky!

Well, mark me down for round 3 of My Willpower vs Robotech: Battlecry (GC/multi) - the game has a number of tough areas that I really didn't expect coming in. Often, if I do finish them after many tries, it's only with a smidgen of health left. Other times, I've turned to a walkthrough to find out that I should have exploited the game (example: in one escort mission, don't even bother trying to shoot things; just circle around releasing decoys every 5 seconds or so...WTF??).

Looking forward to finally putting Wallace & Gromit: Fright of the Bumblebees (PC/multi) to rest. It's the first episode of the series and I've had it since it came out, but have only gotten halfway through.

I've been grinding my way through Dragon Warrior III (NES) for a week now. Considering my party is level 25, I think completing this one by the end of the month is realistic.

I am actually, for real, played FFTA2 lately. Still hooked to WoW, but playing some FFTA2 on the side.

You declaring, or just mentioning another game actually gets some play time?

MaxShrek wrote:

Wow, there are a few "old games" on that list, like Bioshock, Mirror's Edge, Little Big Planet, Gears of War 2, and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. Hmm this thread title is a bit misleading.

Older than 2-3 months counts in this day and age. If you want to go and play Zork, I'll be happy to add it to the list.

ClockworkHouse: He means the comic The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman and Superman get in a fistfight over Gotham. Not The Dark Knight Rises, where Batman and a loudly farting orchestra get in a fistfight over your attention.

Mirror's Edge is complete! I ended up powering through about half of it while waiting for my Gears 'n' Beers invite, and then finished the last chapter-or-so last night.

If I'd written impressions of it after the first few hours, I'd have said it was an awesome game. Now, I'd that it was a good game, with its many awesome moments somewhat countered by its many very frustrating sections, where you get stuck in a try-die-retry cycle until a new idea, or dumb luck (usually the latter) smiles on you to get you through. It's a very ambitious game, and at times it's brilliant, but overall it hasn't quite figured out the magic recipe for a frustration-free 3D platforming experience.

I'm going to work on putting Fairway Solitaire (PC) to bed. I think there are only about eight courses left. They are getting harder, but I'd like to think I could finish that off by the end of the month.

Take Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory off of my list. I've hit the twelve hour mark in Rune Factory Frontier and have discovered that the game just keeps getting deeper and more complex. Having gone into this game expecting a Zelda-style action-adventure game, it's daunting to discover that it's a Sims/Diablo mashup with just about nothing in the way of direction or instruction.

Frankly, I don't know if I love it or hate it, but I don't think I'll be playing much of anything else this month except for hot seat matches of Heroes V with my wife.

Copies of Torment are expensive these days eh? If mine wasn't so dog-eared and the discs weren't all scratched to hell from falling out of their poorly designed little pouches, that sucker would be on eBay tonight.

ClockworkHouse: He means the comic The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman and Superman get in a fistfight over Gotham. Not The Dark Knight Rises, where Batman and a loudly farting orchestra get in a fistfight over your attention.

I'm going to put myself in for Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle and Dawn of War II single player for PC. I'm actually most of the way done DoW II already, this will just give me the motivation to get to the end.